Dawn of the Empire

Chapter 178: Yan Ran Can Be Destroyed (4)

The Mierbo tribe suddenly asked Yelu Dashi to send troops to Mobei, and the tent suddenly fell silent.The Liao army from the north and the south joined together, with nearly 30 soldiers and horses. In terms of military power alone, it was a rare prosperity since the founding of the Daliao Dynasty.The generals are convinced, but no matter where His Majesty's horsewhip points, it will be a catastrophe.It's just that most of the generals were thinking about the wealth and honor of Shangjing, and Mobei was barren and there was nothing to loot, so most of them didn't want to make an expedition to Mobei.

Xiao Yixue, who had just surrendered, thought to himself: "The barbarians in Mobei are too ignorant. When the Jurchens are pacified, they will go to grab the world of flowers and flowers in the Southern Dynasty. There is no reason why cattle and sheep don't eat tender grass, but eat wind and sand." He said He didn't dare to object, but there was a look of disapproval on his face.All the generals looked at His Majesty Dashi, only breathing in different shades could be heard in the tent.

Yelu Dashi pondered for a moment, then suddenly smiled and said: "Kaidu Khan was killed by the Xia people, and this revenge must be avenged. I made an oath with the Mierbo people, and I will fulfill my promise." The expressions on the faces of the generals Wei Bian, Tachi and Urgon showed gratitude on their faces, but they heard him say: "It's just that there are still major issues to be resolved at the moment. , to avoid future troubles. Then reopen the meeting of the eight tribes, and jointly promote the Great Khitan Emperor. The second is that the Jurchens are troubled by Liaodong, so they must be wiped out first, so as not to be attacked by the enemy. After these two things are understood, I will send troops to Mobei to crusade against Xia country, avenge Haidu Khan, and help the Merbo people restore their homeland."

Hearing what he said, all the expressions on the faces of the generals relaxed.Yelu Dashi is the eighth grandson of Yelu Abaoji, the great ancestor of the Liao Kingdom. Although he has high prestige among the Khitan people, he is not a close relative of the royal family.And only when Yelu Dashi has confirmed the position of emperor, the generals who depend on him can justifiably increase their ranks.And after the Jurchen was wiped out, the mere use of troops in Mobei was nothing.

Seeing the disappointment on the faces of Urgon and Tachi, Yelu Dashi laughed again: "If I said that I want to reward, I can't keep my word. So, let's reward the most precious thing Give it to Tachi." He paused, looked around the generals, and looked at some Tachi Mierbo, and said with a smile: "My daughter Pusuwan is nine years younger than you. When she grows up, I will be betrothed to you, so that Yelu and Mierbo will be married and be reconciled from generation to generation. Tachi Mierbo, are you willing?"

Ta Chi was dumbfounded, he couldn't help blushing, Yelu Pusuwan is only a six-year-old girl now.When Ta Chi visited Yelu Dashi Mansion for the first time, he met him once.The little girl with pink makeup and jade carvings called him Brother Tachi in a soft voice.Ta Chi thought he was an adult, and he was a little bit reluctant. "Did I make a marriage with such a little girl?" Haidu Khan became the leader of the tribe in Mobei. When he was at the height of his power, he never dared to dream of marrying the princess of Liao Kingdom.

All the generals looked at him with envious eyes, and laughed at Xiaoshi Wei Manzi, who was so happy that he was stupid.It was Urgon who hurriedly pulled Tachi to his knees to thank him.Yelu Dashi must be the emperor of Liao, and his daughter is the princess of Liao.This is a rare honor.The marriage between the two parties, no matter from which point of view, Yelu Dashi greatly flattered the Mierbo tribe.Another thing is that Tachi became the son-in-law of the Daliao Kingdom, so it will be much easier to avenge the Mierbo tribe in the future.Among the grassland tribes, the son-in-law of the patriarch is extremely powerful. Not only does he have his own cronies and subordinates, but those with outstanding talents can even affect the rise and fall of the entire tribe.

Yelu Dashi smiled and raised his hand to let them get up.The Mierbo tribe and the Khitan people have the same origin, and they are all descendants of green cattle and white horses.He took a fancy to Mierbo's elite soldiers capable of fighting, and wanted to subdue them.On the other hand, Tachi is the leader of the tribe appointed by Haidu Khan before his death, and he is a rare warrior with a simple mind and no bad habits.During this period of time, he observed carefully, and found that this son was quick-witted and could be cultivated.He would rather marry his daughter to such a warrior.Taking advantage of this opportunity to recruit Tachi, the heir appointed by Haidu Khan, as his son-in-law, it happened to further win over the Mierbo tribe to serve Khitan.

Afterwards, a banquet was held in the camp to celebrate the great victory, and a variety of dishes were served at a high price, such as roasted lamb, roasted pheasant, dried venison, smoked hare, stewed roe deer with Uighur beans, boiled beef and horse liver in salt brine, roasted swan with green onion and garlic, and roasted wild goose , The case table is covered with silver plates and wooden dishes.On the wooden plate, fried snacks and crispy cheese piled up like a hill, and the maids kept adding thick milk tea and yogurt tea to relieve the tiredness and hangover.Another servant moved onto a huge four-legged square tripod, under which charcoal was piled up red-hot, and pig heads, goose heads, elbows and hoofs were boiled in the pot. Khitan generals.

The savage nature of the tribal people in Mobei has not been eliminated. Urgon and Ta Chi each put a plate of raw lamb legs, cut off pieces of raw meat with a knife, and put them into their mouths with fresh deer blood, ginger, onion and leeks. His mouth was full of blood foam.Seeing that the meat-boiled cauldron weighed more than a thousand catties, "This pot for roasting meat is so big." Urgon exclaimed, and couldn't help feeling how rich the Khitan people were.

"This is what I looted from Bianliang in the Southern Dynasty to the Taizu. Because it is inconvenient to move, I discarded it in Youzhou." Yelu Yanshan next to him explained with a smile.He glanced at Yelu Dashi, who was talking and smiling freely.It was obtained from the ancestral temple of the weakened Southern Dynasties. The left-bearers of Youzhou also placed it respectfully in the left-behind mansion. Only His Majesty Dashi was so proud that he brought it to the army and used it to reward the generals.

"So that's how it is." Urgon nodded, with an envious look in his eyes, "It's enough to make hundreds of scimitars." Picking up a piece of raw mutton with the sharp knife, he swallowed it together with the blood.Yelu Yanshan's eyes flashed, he patted his shoulder with a smile, and said in a deep voice: "There are as many things as you want in the Southern Dynasty. There are countless slaves and treasures, just waiting for the warrior's sword to harvest." The two generals touched their wine glasses , and drank it with his neck up, got drunk, and sang the song of hunting yellow sheep together loudly.

At this time, the musicians in the tent played music together, and the chorus of pipa, bismuth and piccolo was cheerful and melodious.Yelu Yanshan took the lead in singing "Haitongqing catches the swan", this song was widely sung among the tribes in the north, Urgon followed suit and clapped their hands together, and all the generals sang loudly while beating on the table.As soon as the singing started, a group of Khitan girls sang and danced in the tents. They were all charming and charming, with twirling toes and fluttering skirts.With her slender waist turning and her beautiful eyes looking forward, all the generals were "colored" with their souls, and they left the table one after another, singing and dancing with these girls.Occasionally toasting and drinking, shouting loudly, the atmosphere in the banquet was extremely lively.

Tachi Mierb was dazzled too.At this moment, many generals held the young girl in their arms, wantonly making intimacy.Yelu Dashi forbade the Khitan generals to take Nahan people as wives and concubines, but encouraged them to take more Khitan women and keep their children widely.If these young girls become concubines of these Khitan generals, the whole family will be honored.All of them were obedient, some blushed, some closed their star eyes slightly, and some smiled coquettishly and played with the generals.Yelu Dashi didn't think he was disobedient in the seat of honor, but laughed out loud.But Tachi Mierbo didn't dare to do anything wrong, remembering that he was going to marry a Khitan princess, he didn't know whether it was drunk or shy, and his face was flushed.His every move fell into the eyes of Yelu Dashi, and Yelu Dashi nodded slightly in his heart.

All the generals celebrated the victory and persuaded each other to drink.The Khitan people and the Shiwei people were all greedy for good wine, and they were all drunk at the moment. The generals took up their wine glasses one after another, congratulated Yelu Dashi, Urgon, and Tachi, and even took Tachi and Uergon Poured to the ground.Only Yelu Dashi put the wine glass on his lips every time, and the generals did not dare to fight each other.

Seeing that all the generals were stumbling around, Yelu Dashi picked up his wine glass, got up quietly and went outside the tent.I saw Yelu Tiege, his confidant and titan not taking off his golden armor, in the cold wind howling, with his hand on his waist knife, his face was solemn, and he guarded the tent meticulously.Yelu Dashi was moved, and walked forward, brother Yelu Tie heard footsteps, turned his head and saw that His Majesty paid the bill in person, saluted immediately, and the iron armor made a crisp sound.Yelu Dashi handed him the wine glass and said with a smile, "Drink it to warm your body, my most loyal subordinate."

Brother Yelu Tie drank the wine in one gulp and said in a deep voice, "I am willing to die for Your Majesty!" His words were resounding.

Yelu Dashi looked back at the figures in the tent, and sighed: "With you here, I and other talents can spend the night happily." Brother Yelu Tie hesitated to speak, hesitated again and again, and finally said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty is really serious. Are you going to convene a meeting of eight ministries to elect the emperor? From the point of view of the general, His Majesty's prestige is unmatched, as long as the whole army supports him, why should he look at the eyes of those old people and nobles?" He said these words for a long time. At this moment, except for the howling cold wind, there was no one else around the two monarchs and ministers, so they just spoke out to persuade them.

Yelu Dashi was taken aback, patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "I have always known your loyalty." Seeing Yelu Tie's expression of gratitude, he sighed, "I am the emperor, It's not for myself, but for the future of the Khitan people, so it's up to the eight tribes to decide." He paused, and then said, "A single arrow can easily break a child, but a bundle of arrows can't even be done by a strong man. In the past, it was only because the emperors of the past dynasties took power and overthrew the eight tribes. Therefore, our Khitan people fell apart. Not only were they hindered by the Southern Dynasty, but even the small Jurchen tribe could not be pacified. The purpose of holding the Eight Tribes Meeting is to gather all the Khitan people. The second is to prevent a foolish king like Yelu Yanxi from acting against him in the future, so that all the clansmen can have a restraint on him." He looked at the starry sky in the distance, and said slowly, "A person's life is only a hundred years, if the destiny is really there If I, Khitan, let the eight tribes work together to revive Khitan. Whether I, Yelu Dashi, sits on this emperor's position is irrelevant."

There was a touch of loneliness and boundless pride in his words, which made Yelu Tie's blood boil all over, and he immediately said loudly: "Reviving the great cause of Khitan is none other than Your Majesty. Anyone who dares to obstruct, my brother Tie recognizes him, the knife is not Recognize him!" In the hearts of Brother Yelu Tie and many Khitan people, those so-called respected Khitan families are nothing but the dross of a century of decay.Yelu Dashi will lead them to sweep away these sediments together.

The news of the end of the Liao Civil War quickly spread to Dunhuang, and the royal family and the five governments continued to pay attention to the situation in the Liao Kingdom.The Department of Military Intelligence estimated that Yelu Dashi would be unable to look west for a while because he wanted to integrate the forces within the Liao Kingdom and put down the rebellion of the Jurchen Kingdom in the east.The only concern at the moment is that the remnants of the defeated Haidu Khan, led by his son Bo Shenghuo, have been 'harassing' the newly harvested grassland in the southeast of Xiaohai, so that the shadow households of the newly attached tribe are now showing some signs of instability.The Anbei Army Division plans to send troops in the summer to drive out these horse thieves.

The waves caused by the changes in the situation in the Liao Kingdom were far inferior to Zhao Xingde's shock when he saw a row of bronze cannons displayed on the review field.

Wang Tongdeng exclaimed exaggeratedly, "It's really a valuable guy." There were thirty bronze cannons, twelve of which had a three-inch diameter, and eighteen had a four-inch diameter.Each three-inch gun weighs more than [-] catties, and each four-inch gun weighs more than two thousand catties.In order to allow the artillery battalion to keep up with the marching column as much as possible, Xia Guo equipped each cannon with a cannon carriage, two ammunition carts, plus vehicles for transporting grain, grass and luggage. The draw horses for the cannon ration amounted to fifteen.In addition, there is the gunner's riding horse.

Seeing the horses of the Artillery Battalion, Wang Tongdeng exclaimed loudly again: "So many horses are needed, it is better to form cavalry! I can kill the enemy with just one impact!"